Mickey Huff is co-host of the Project Censored Show with former Project Censored director Dr. Peter Phillips. It airs on the progressiveradionetwork.com out of New York City

Archive for October 2017

For the first half of the program, Mickey speaks with Rachel Jollie of Index on Censorship, who explains the vital role of radio in breaking through governments' attempts to control the flow of information. Next, Michael Levitin interviews Anna Callahan with The Incorruptibles, about recruiting and electing authentic grassroots candidates to local office. Finally, Mickey speaks with Elle Aviv Newton of Poets Reading the News, a year-old online newspaper that presents journalism via poetry.

Notes:

Rachel Jollie is editor at Index on Censorship, a UK-based organization that tracks government

suppression of media and free speech across the globe. Anna Callahan is an organizer with

The Incorruptibles. Elle Aviv Newtonis cofounder and editor-in-chief of Poets Reading the News.

Mickey and guest co-host Kenn Burrows spend the first half of the program on a discussion of health effects arising from cell-phone technology, and why corporate media are not paying enough heed to these issues. The panel of guests also explain SB649, a California bill that would have removed local authority over the placement of new 5G cell phone transmitters.

Later in the program, Project Censored correspondent Michael Levitan speaks with author and TV host Eleanor Goldfield about the limitations of online activism. And the show concludes with Nolan Higdon, Nicholas Baham and Desiree McSwain discussing their chapter in Censored 2018, "the New Authoritarianism."

Notes:

Kenn Burrows teaches Holistic Health Studies at San Francisco State University. Lloyd Morgan is an electronic engineer; he also studies the connections between electromagnetic radiation and cancer. Audrey Johnson is a biology student at San Francisco State University, and co-president of the campus Project Censored club. Ellen Marx is the director of the California Brain Tumor Association. Reinette Senum is a city council member in Nevada City, California. Eleanor Goldfield is host of the Free-Speech TV show “Act Out” and author of the new book “Paradigm Lost.”

Update: After this program was recorded, California Governor Jerry Brown vetoed SB649.